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United States of Racism

A flurry of racist tweets that followed President Barack Obama’s re-election came primarily from southern states, according to a map that geographically pinpointed the point of origin of the hate speech.

Tweets calling the president a “monkey” or using racial epithets prompted a group of geography experts to try and break down whether the hateful language was more prevalent in some areas of the country than others.As it turns out, it was.

The bigoted tweets serve as a “useful reminder that technology reflects the society in which it is based, both the good and the bad,” said geography research group Floating Sheep.

The group took 365 tweets and laid them over a color-coded map of the United States to analyze the frequency of hate tweets compared to the frequency of election-related tweets in that state.

Mississippi and Alabama had the highest ratio of racist tweets. They were followed by Georgia, Louisiana, Tennessee, forming a “fairly distinctive cluster in the southeast” of online hate speech, the research finds.

North Dakota, Utah, and Missouri also had a high prevalence of racist tweets.

In the west and northwest, there were very few racist tweets, with the exception of Oregon, the map indicates.

Some states, including Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and South Dakota, had no hate tweets, but the research notes that the prevalence of Twitter use is lower in those states

Assuming of course racism is only practiced by caucasians and no other defineable group..........oh look, i found a worm and a cockroach, all i had to do was turn over the stone. I guess you can find anything if you look hard enough for it.

Are we really gonna hear cries about rampant racism after this country elected and RE-elected a bi-racial (although nobody refers to him as such) President? Of course racism exists, but much like autism, it is wildly over diagnosed.